An introduction to classroom-based interventions across subject areas / Gabriel J. Stylianides and Ann Childs -- Double stimulation for reluctant readers: a literature circle intervention in a secondary school English classroom / Daniel Brocklehurst and Ian Thompson -- What are the possibilities and limitations of small-scale, mediated classroom interventions? : two cases from modern foreign languages / Laura Molway, Trevor Mutton, Robert Woore and Katherine Porter -- Who is doing the questioning : a classroom intervention in secondary science classrooms to promote student questioning / Alexandra Haydon and Ann Childs -- Developing science explanations in the classroom: the role of the written narrative / Richard Taylor and Judith Hillier -- Developing talk in mathematics classrooms / Jenni Ingram, Nick Andrews, Jo Rudd and Andrea Pitt -- The role of practitioner research and publication in developing a cumulative and critical tradition of research in classroom-based interventions in history education / Katharine Burn, Jaya Carrier and Anna Fielding -- Mapping-out the inferential relations of the subject content of geography lessons: a planning intervention for pre-service teachers to inform teaching and learning / Roger Firth and Ali Strutt -- The problems and possibilities of conducting small-scale classroom-based randomised control trials in contributing to evidence-based practice: one school's experience / Elizabeth Samuel, Christina Watson and Ann Childs -- Commentary classroom-based interventions in different subject areas: sharing meaning across researchers and practitioners / Merrilyn Goos -- Commentary interventions in education : origins, theoretical perspectives and challenges / Shirley Simon.